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the expenditures of the money that are made. Now, a consider- 

 able amount of money has been expended in artificial propaga- 

 tion — more in shad than anything else — and I can see no reason 

 wliy it is not a subject that the general Government should take 

 up and spend money upon. There is an injustice in the State of 

 Ohio, for instance, spending money in hatching shad and deposit- 

 ing them in the Ohio River, when they go down the river and 

 are caught all the way down the river. Louisville, for instance, 

 would spread her nets and take the fish propagated by Ohio, and 

 the fish that Michigan propagates Illinois will catch, for white- 

 fish migrate, and so they do in all the waters ; and it is an ex- 

 penditure from which all the people would reap an equal benefit, 

 and an expenditure purely within the scope of the general 

 Government to take hold of. I want to see the present law 

 amended I want to see some action on the part of parties 

 interested in this matter with our representatives, to have some 

 legislation on the subject, and some new restrictions put upon 

 the appropriations. The scope of the United States Fish Com- 

 mission, their labors and their work, have been very much en- 

 larged since the passage of the first bill, since the appointment 

 of the first commission. There is only one commissioner. 

 There should be more than one commissioner. There should be 

 three or five commissioners, representing the different interests. 

 A larger amount of money should be appropriated, and the work 

 and scope of the commission should be very much enlarged. 

 That is the idea I want to gel before the meeting. 



Mr. Clark. — In regard to this question — speaking as Mr. 

 Bissell did in his paper in regard to showing results to the peo- 

 ple and to his legislature and other legislatures, I wish to say to 

 you who were present last spring when this paper — this poorly 

 gotten up paper — was presented by myself, you will remember 

 I gave you some facts in regard to what we could show that 

 artificial propagation and planting of whitefish had done in the 

 great lakes, and why I claimed it must be due to that, because i^ 

 had shown' quicker in that than in any other way. The figures 

 I gave you go to show it. They show there that there was 

 some 65,000,000 or 70,000,000 of whitefish that had been planted 

 up to a certain day in 1882 in Lake Erie. From all the facts we 



